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English reading passages by level — comprehensible input for reading practice
78 passages
A1 · Beginner8 passages
קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: המשפחה שלי
My name is Maya. I have a small family. My father is a teacher and my mother is a doctor. I have one brother.…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: בוקר של דן
Dan gets up at seven in the morning. He drinks water and eats bread with cheese. Then he goes to school. School starts at…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: בחנות
Anna is in a small shop. She wants apples and milk. The apples are red and green. Anna takes four red apples. The milk…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: יום בים
Today is Sunday. Noa and her friends are at the sea. The sun is hot and the water is blue. Noa swims with her…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הגינה של סבתא
My grandmother has a small garden. She grows tomatoes, carrots, and flowers. Every morning she gives the plants water. The flowers are red and…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: ארוחת הצהריים
Sam is hungry. He makes lunch at home. He eats rice, chicken, and a green salad. He drinks water with the food. For after,…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הכלב שלי
I have a dog. His name is Rex. He is brown and big. Rex likes to run in the park. He plays with a…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: משחק כדורגל
On Friday, my friends play football. We meet at the school field at four. I like to run fast. My friend Omar is very…
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A2 · Basic17 passages
קראו את הקטע וענו
Last weekend, Maya went to London. She saw Big Ben and took many photos. On Sunday she bought a book and wrote a postcard…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
Tom is a teacher. He gets up at six o'clock every morning. He always drinks coffee before work. After school he often goes running…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
It is Sunday afternoon. The Cohen family is at home. Dana is reading a book in her room. Her brother is playing a video…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
Maya has big plans. Tonight she is going to pack her bags. Tomorrow she is going to fly to London for a holiday. She…
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קראו את השיחה במסעדה וענו על השאלות.
Waiter: Good evening. Are you ready to order? Customer: Yes, please. I'd like some chicken with rice. Waiter: Would you like anything to drink?…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
This is a photo of my family. The woman in the middle is my mother. Next to her is my father; he is tall…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
Daniel is starting a new job today. He can use a computer very well, and he can speak both English and Spanish. He cannot…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
A tourist stops a woman on the street. "Excuse me, where is the train station?" he asks. "It is near the park," she answers.…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: יום בשוק
Every Friday morning, Dana goes to the market near her house. She likes to go early because the fruit is fresh and the market…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: החתול החדש
Last month, Tom found a small gray cat in the park. The cat was wet and hungry, so Tom took it home. He gave…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: טיול לכנרת
In July, my family and I traveled to the Sea of Galilee for three days. We stayed in a small hotel near the water.…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: העבודה של מיכל
Michal works as a bus driver in a big city. She starts work at five in the morning, so she goes to bed early.…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הרכבת הראשונה
Last week, Lior took a train for the first time. He was a little nervous because the station was big and full of people.…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: העבודה החדשה
Nora started a new job at a bookshop last month. On her first day, she was worried, but the other workers helped her. She…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הטלפון החדש
Yesterday, David bought a new phone. His old phone was slow and the battery did not last long. The new phone has a good…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: חג המסכות
Every spring, our town has a big street festival. People wear colorful masks and dance in the square. Last year, my sister made her…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הדבורים בגן
There are bees in our school garden. At first, some children were afraid of them. Our teacher explained that bees are not dangerous when…
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B1 · Intermediate13 passages
קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
Sara is a journalist. She has worked for the newspaper since 2018, and she has written more than two hundred articles. Last year she…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
Maya is planning a picnic for Saturday. If the weather is good, she will invite all her friends to the park. If it rains,…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
Yesterday at noon, the office was very busy. Sara was writing an email while her colleague was talking on the phone. Suddenly, the lights…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
Anna hears a knock at the door. "It must be the postman," she thinks, "because he always comes at this time." She opens the…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: לגדל עגבניות במרפסת
When Omer moved to an apartment on the sixth floor, he thought his gardening days were over. Then a neighbor showed him her balcony,…
4 comprehension questions
קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הרכבת הלילית לפראג
Last spring, Maya and her sister took a night train from Vienna to Prague instead of flying. The ticket cost a little more than…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: ספרייה של דברים
A new kind of library has opened in several cities around the world: a “library of things.” Instead of books, it lends tools, kitchen…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: לרוץ בפעם הראשונה
Yossi never thought of himself as a sporty person. At school, he was always the last one chosen for teams, and as an adult…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: למה השמיים כחולים
Have you ever wondered why the sky looks blue? Sunlight seems white, but it is really a mix of many colors. When sunlight enters…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הדואר של פעם
Before phones and email, people waited weeks for news from far away. Letters travelled by ship, by horse, and later by train. A message…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: קפה מסביב לעולם
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world, but people enjoy it in very different ways. In Italy, many people drink…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הריצה הראשונה של מאיה
When Maya decided to run a marathon, her friends were surprised. She had never been good at sport, and she often felt tired after…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: העיר שמתחת לאדמה
In the middle of Turkey lies an amazing place called Derinkuyu. Long ago, people dug a whole city deep under the ground. It had…
3 comprehension questions
B2 · Upper Intermediate15 passages
קראו את הקטע ושימו לב למילות הסיבה והתוצאה.
The city introduced a congestion charge in January. Due to the new fee, many commuters switched to public transport, and traffic in the centre…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
The Eiffel Tower was designed by the engineer Gustave Eiffel and was built for the 1889 World Fair in Paris. At first it was…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
When the journalist interviewed the scientist, she asked him how long he had been working on the project. He explained that he had started…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
Dana has a busy schedule before her trip. By Monday, she will have packed all her bags. By the time her flight leaves on…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
The café that opened last month is already very popular. The barista who works there makes excellent coffee, and the cakes which they sell…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
Daniel had always enjoyed working alone, so he kept avoiding team projects whenever he could. Eventually, his manager suggested joining a small group for…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: ערים ללא מכוניות?
Several European cities have begun closing their historic centers to private cars, and the debate around this policy is louder than ever. Supporters point…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: האם שיעורי בית עדיין נחוצים?
Few topics divide parents and teachers as reliably as homework. Defenders argue that it builds discipline, reinforces what was learned in class, and teaches…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: כלכלת היד השנייה
A decade ago, buying second-hand clothes was something many people preferred not to mention. Today, apps for reselling used fashion are among the most…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: שינה — המצרך שאי אפשר לקנות
Modern culture treats tiredness almost as a badge of honor. Executives boast about five hours of sleep, students compare all-nighters before exams, and the…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: העבודה מהבית
When millions of people suddenly began working from home, many managers expected productivity to collapse. In fact, the opposite often happened, at least at…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הזאבים של ילוסטון
In 1995, scientists returned a small number of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in the United States, seventy years after the last ones had…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: אמנות הרחוב
For a long time, painting on public walls was treated purely as vandalism, something to be scrubbed away as quickly as possible. In recent…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: מסע במעמקים
The deep ocean remains one of the least explored places on Earth, stranger and less mapped than the surface of the Moon. Below a…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: המטבח שחצה ימים
The food we think of as traditional is often surprisingly young, and frequently borrowed from far away. The tomato, now central to Italian cooking,…
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C1 · Advanced13 passages
קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות לפי משמעות הניבים.
When Maya started her new job, she was nervous, but her colleague Tom helped her break the ice by introducing her to the team.…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
The expedition was unlike anything the team had attempted. Never before had they faced such treacherous terrain, and seldom did a day pass without…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
The new policy promised lower costs for consumers. However, early data told a more complicated story. Prices did fall in urban areas; moreover, service…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
Daniel often reflects on the decisions that shaped his life. If he had accepted the scholarship in Berlin all those years ago, he would…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: שפות נעלמות ומה שאובד איתן
Of the roughly seven thousand languages spoken today, linguists estimate that nearly half may fall silent by the end of the century. The arithmetic…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: משבר השכפול במדע
In 2015, a consortium of researchers attempted to reproduce one hundred published psychology experiments and succeeded, by the most generous count, in fewer than…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: כלכלת תשומת הלב ומחיריה
When access to an online service is free, the transaction has not disappeared; it has merely been disguised. The user pays in attention, which…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: התעלומה השקטה של דבורת הדבש
The honeybee occupies a peculiar place in the public imagination: a wild creature that is, in fact, closer to livestock, trucked between orchards by…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הזיכרון אינו מצלמה
We tend to imagine memory as a kind of recording device, faithfully preserving events so that we can replay them later exactly as they…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: השפה שנעלמת
Every few weeks, somewhere in the world, the last fluent speaker of a language dies, and with them an entire way of describing reality…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: מגפת הכולרה ומפת הרחובות
In the summer of 1854, a deadly outbreak of cholera swept through a crowded district of London, killing hundreds within days. The prevailing theory…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: השקט שנעלם
Genuine silence has become one of the rarest experiences of modern life. Even in places that appear remote, the low hum of distant traffic,…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: מלאכת יד בעולם ממוכן
It might seem that in an age of mass production, the patient craftsman working by hand would have vanished entirely, out-competed by machines that…
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C2 · Mastery12 passages
קראו את הקטע ושימו לב מה כל סמן שיח עושה.
The new manager has certainly shaken things up. Mind you, the place needed shaking up — we had been doing everything the same way…
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קראו את שני הקטעים וענו על השאלות בנוגע לרגיסטר.
Two versions of the same message were drafted. Version A reads: "Pursuant to our recent correspondence, we are obliged to advise you that the…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות.
In her closing remarks, the project director urged the team to bear in mind that the figures presented were provisional. While the company had…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: בשבחה של שכחה
We are accustomed to treating memory as a virtue and forgetting as its failure, a leak in the vessel that careful living might seal.…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: אמנות התרגום כבגידה נאמנה
The Italians compress the translator’s predicament into a pun: traduttore, traditore — translator, traitor. The accusation is unanswerable because it is true, and uninteresting…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: על שעמום ומה שצומח ממנו
Boredom has acquired the status of a solved problem. The device in our pocket guarantees that no queue, no waiting room, no insomniac hour…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: העיר כפלימפססט
Medieval scribes, short of parchment, would scrape the ink from old manuscripts and write over them; centuries later, scholars with ultraviolet lamps found the…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: פרדוקס הבחירה
Conventional wisdom holds that choice is an unalloyed good: the more options a person enjoys, the freer and more satisfied they must surely be.…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: מדוע ערים ממשיכות לצמוח
For all the recurring predictions of their demise, great cities have proved stubbornly resilient, absorbing plagues, fires, wars, and, most recently, a pandemic that…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הספרייה של אלכסנדריה
The great Library of Alexandria occupies a peculiar place in the modern imagination, remembered less for what it actually contained than for the catastrophe…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: כשהמכונה יוצרת אמנות
The arrival of software capable of generating pictures, prose, and music from a few typed words has provoked a debate that is often framed…
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קראו את הקטע וענו על השאלות: הרי הקרח הזוכרים
Deep within the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica lies an archive of astonishing precision, written not in ink but in frozen water.…
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